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Hi,

My name is Bill and my son just got his first GBA. I have been
doing some programming both in C and some game programming in
DarkBasic, but I am not a programmer by any means.

I just wondered if GB proramming was a viable hobby. I see that
some of the tools have not really had much in the way of recent
development, it seems that Visual HAM may be on the back shelf, and
the advent of the DS may even put the whole GBA world in limbo.

I sent off for the flash adapter kit and I downloaded some tools
and have been playing around with the emulators, but I don't want to
get too far into another field without knowing what landmines I might
find.

Any conversation on the issue appreciated.









Thu Nov 4, 2004 1:08 pm

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Hi, My name is Bill and my son just got his first GBA. I have been doing some programming both in C and some game programming in DarkBasic, but I am not a...
Bill DeWitt
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Nov 4, 2004
3:18 pm

I'm not too concerned with the DS putting the GBA world in limbo. Now it will probably reduce the amount of new commercial games coming out for the GBA, so you...
Palamon 3
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Nov 4, 2004
9:54 pm

Hey Bill Im not a programmer myself since I never actually coded a demo wich was worthy to be posted on any website, but I did look for sprites, mode4 ...
Win Schutten
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Nov 4, 2004
10:06 pm

Hi Bill, In my opinion the GBA is a great platform for a hobbyist programmer, and a great way to improve your C programming skills. It's completely different...
Pete Gunter
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Nov 4, 2004
10:52 pm

Bill, GBA is probably the best non-pc platform to begin programming on. It is powerful enough to do some incredible things, yet simple enough to be mastered...
jason rogers
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Nov 5, 2004
12:51 am

Hi Jason, While i can understand the fact that you suggest people that want to properly learn programming embedded platforms to avoid the HAMlib function ...
Emanuel Schleussinger...
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Nov 5, 2004
1:49 pm

Thanks for all the responses. I got my devkit in the mail today, should be having fun soon. Already pulling out my hair over stupid programming mistakes... ...
Bill DeWitt
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Nov 5, 2004
11:20 pm

Emanuel, I apologize as I seem to be misunderstood. I was referring only to ham lib which I believe is a very solid implementation of the functionality needed...
jason rogers
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Nov 5, 2004
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... upcoming DS ... use HAM as ... expect ... BTW, I got that. ... api Can you recommend some tutorials? While I appreciate the ease of premade libraries and...
Bill DeWitt
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Nov 6, 2004
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These are two tutorials that I like the most: http://user.chem.tue.nl/jakvijn/tonc/ www.thepernproject.com I am kindof partial to the pern project being that...
jason rogers
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Nov 6, 2004
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Is there any good tutorials on doing multiplayer games, or, dare I say it, using the wireless adaptor, and on that note, how to do what a few of the classic ...
Palamon 3
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Nov 7, 2004
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hi, ... this is known as 'multi-boot'. i've never seen a tutorial which demonstrates how to use this, but here is some pretty good information of how you might...
Michael Reid
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Nov 7, 2004
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You could take a look at http://downtou.cjb.net. In the GBA section they got a bit on link. ... From: Palamon 3 To: gbadev@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday,...
Ben
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